Royal Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner
Today I was going to go round Banqueting House, the last properly surviving bit of the old Palace of Whitehall, but when I got there […]
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The Post Office Central Power Station
Another door, this time on Barge House Street, in the outer wall of what is now the Oxo Tower complex. The Royal coat of arms above […]
Reginald Warneford – first destroyer of a Zeppelin
In Brompton Cemetery stands a wonderful monument to Reginald Warneford, the first man to destroy a Zeppelin in combat, over Belgium on 7 June 1915. He didn’t shoot it down, […]
Edwin Evans and Battersea Rise
The closing of a small estate agent’s office in South West London is hardly big news (some might even raise a cheer), but the closure […]
Early morning London
At the beginning of June I did the Nightrider challenge – 100km cycling around London overnight. It was exhausting, tiring, but great fun (a full […]
‘Go Gay’ Going
I’ve always loved the sign for this laundrette on the Wandsworth Bridge Road. It’s lovable partly for the involuntary snigger it always causes, but mainly […]
The Chislehurst ‘Caves’
40 metres or so beneath Chislehurst, a pleasant little suburban village close to Bromley, are the Chislehurst Caves. In fact ‘Caves’ is something of a […]
The Tower Hill memorial
Directly across the road by the Tower of London, hard by the tube station is the Tower Hill Memorial to sailors of the merchant navy […]
“Your lucky day”: the gold ring scam
So, there I am, walking up Chelsea Bridge Road towards Sloane Square. “Look at this!” says a man who has just passed me, “Look what […]
“Big problems call for Big solutions” – the Abercrombie plan
“The Proud City” is a wonderful bit of film freely available on the Internet Archive. Made to sell the idea of the Abercrombie plan for […]